Automotive Addicts Lounge V5 - P0306 - General

There's a guy in my grandma's neighborhood with a ton of 60s luxury mopar sitting out to rot. A Fury, an Imperial, a New Yorker... Guy's crazier than a shithouse rat though, won't talk to anyone. These cars haven't moved since I was real little, so I've just got to watch them slowly die for my whole life. :(

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;51761045]There's a guy in my grandma's neighborhood with a ton of 60s luxury mopar sitting out to rot. A Fury, an Imperial, a New Yorker... Guy's crazier than a shithouse rat though, won't talk to anyone. These cars haven't moved since I was real little, so I've just got to watch them slowly die for my whole life. :([/QUOTE] If he dies you can make an offer for them from his estate. You'd just have to talk to whomever is in charge of it

Guy who used to own most of the city of Ball Ground was rumored to have bought a brand new car for his newborn daughter, and then he buried said car on one of his properties to be dug up and given to her as a gift for when she turns 18.

How not to preserve a car

what blows my mind about those sort of stories is that people think their daughters are gonna want an 18 year old car that's spent it's whole life completely covered in dirt [editline]2nd February 2017[/editline] and if they did there's plenty of dirty 18 year old cars on craigslist for way cheaper

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;51762078]Guy who used to own most of the city of Ball Ground was rumored to have bought a brand new car for his newborn daughter, and then he buried said car on one of his properties to be dug up and given to her as a gift for when she turns 18.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of the story of a car being buried for 50 years as a time capsule, and when it was dug up finding out it was flooded. [editline]1st February 2017[/editline] [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Belvedere[/url]

Its not a stretch from his usual shit. Guy owned like, 8 rock shops along the main ballground stretch. Most right next to each other. [I]Rock shops.[/I] 'cept here's the rub, not only did he think this was a good idea... [I]he never sold shit to anybody.[/I] And I'm not talking like, "ohh his business was slow..." No, NO. Dude sat in his truck on the main ballground stretch and [I]watched his stores[/I] every day [U]solely[/U] to chase off ANYBODY even so much as looking inside his stores. Store fronts, signs, the things in said stores even had price tags, yet he LITERALLY chased off LITERALLY every potential customer until the day he fucking died.

Sounds like he might be crazy enough to actually do it

The whole storing a car thing kinda sounds like fun, like say I take an old vehicle of mine, throw it in an air tight sea can, and dig it up in 20 or more years time. Or like my first/favorite vehicle from my youth (probably a pristine 12 valve haha!) and when im retired or really old dig it up! Cant imagine what the world of vehicles would be like then.

[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;51764063]The whole storing a car thing kinda sounds like fun, like say I take an old vehicle of mine, throw it in an air tight sea can, and dig it up in 20 or more years time. Or like my first/favorite vehicle from my youth (probably a pristine 12 valve haha!) and when im retired or really old dig it up! Cant imagine what the world of vehicles would be like then.[/QUOTE] [t]https://animationconfabulation.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/atlantis-ships.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=DPKiller;51764121][t]https://animationconfabulation.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/atlantis-ships.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Man this movie was the fucking shit and apparently there are mongoloids out there who didn't like it You, reading this: If you don't like Atlantis, fuck u

[QUOTE=DuCT;51763614]Reminds me of the story of a car being buried for 50 years as a time capsule, and when it was dug up finding out it was flooded. [editline]1st February 2017[/editline] [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Belvedere[/url][/QUOTE] they had the thing caked in cosmoline so it came out no worse than a car parked since 1957 in say louisiana which is to say pretty fucking bad but not near as bad as it would have been. if they didn't use the cosmoline they may as well have parked it in a lake [editline]2nd February 2017[/editline] wasnt have been any worse than half the cars riding around during cruisin the coast

Black today.. brown tomorrow. [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/54277B2D-3156-4DBA-86A3-274F5C458537_zpsjtc7rpqi.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/54277B2D-3156-4DBA-86A3-274F5C458537_zpsjtc7rpqi.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And then out comes an idiot with a buffer and 60 grit discs.. [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/81EF94F8-F7A2-4EB0-8027-FBFD13DE7498_zpsmbix9z0o.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/81EF94F8-F7A2-4EB0-8027-FBFD13DE7498_zpsmbix9z0o.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/50789D04-CBAE-44D7-AEEB-DECCDD9D433D_zpsxt9j85y6.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/50789D04-CBAE-44D7-AEEB-DECCDD9D433D_zpsxt9j85y6.jpg[/IMG][/URL] It's fun finding exactly what happened to this car in the past.. uncovering places I knew had shoddy bodywork.. finding places I didn't know had bondo under them because it was done pretty well. I buzzed off all of the crummy black paint and I'm down to metal or original paint basically everywhere. From there I'm going to seal the whole thing with gooood epoxy, and bodywork until my hands fall off. Not looking forward to this... [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/8DEDEA61-AF8C-447B-A6B0-573804032E6A_zpswcwh7fcw.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/8DEDEA61-AF8C-447B-A6B0-573804032E6A_zpswcwh7fcw.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The doors are the only really rusty parts of the car left. One has actual holes in the bottom. But they're also not even close to straight. So double whammy. It's going to take some work. And some more 'normal' sanding under the hood. That's an easy prep. [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/615CA263-2E24-42CC-A09A-5AC250BCCE68_zpsuy2qmphs.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/615CA263-2E24-42CC-A09A-5AC250BCCE68_zpsuy2qmphs.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Before I started making dusts I finished the trunk to where I'm happy with it.. [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/79977DF2-50E1-491C-9F48-FA87A5F789B7_zpsdzaeq9sh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/79977DF2-50E1-491C-9F48-FA87A5F789B7_zpsdzaeq9sh.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And slammed the dash back in for inspiration. [URL=http://s465.photobucket.com/user/isaact1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/6A025CA9-3FF4-49B4-ACC8-E9BB6D3AA3BD_zps58xichyx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/isaact1234/Mobile%20Uploads/6A025CA9-3FF4-49B4-ACC8-E9BB6D3AA3BD_zps58xichyx.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I seldom drive my car on the freeway, but I needed to tour a campus that I'm hoping to attend. The mr2 definitely isn't a highway cruiser since it settles at about 4k-ish at 80mph. My friend was with me and my voice got sore from talking over the drone. :v:

@clutch2 what exactly is that car again? 70s corola?

An RA40 Celica, 1978! [img]https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NNzprnb2--/z3uc9cfwqafrmz9f5xry.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=ToastedBread;51764415]I seldom drive my car on the freeway, but I needed to tour a campus that I'm hoping to attend. The mr2 definitely isn't a highway cruiser since it settles at about 4k-ish at 80mph. My friend was with me and my voice got sore from talking over the drone. :v:[/QUOTE] Wow, mine does 1950rpm at 80. Not even 2k! He'll even my RV only does 3800 at 80. It doesn't even have overdrive! What are your rear gears?

So I had the usual 5000 mile service check done on my car (just a boring 04 CRV) today, and while up on the lift apparently they noticed that the rear differential mounts were cracking and had a significant amount of play. They quoted it out for 730 including labor, which seems steep but I only have the one quote so far I live in an apartment now with no real access to tools or even a jack (yet another reason I want a house ASAP, can hardly change my own damn oil), and the parking spaces here are so small I doubt I could do the job even with all the right equipment. Replacement parts look like they'd be around $180 all said and done, so it's really a bummer I can't do it myself. Admittedly, I'm not really a car dude and the most I've done was a full AC system refurb on my old ranger, along with replacing the plugs and wires on the very same. I just seem to have some attitude at taking things apart and putting them back together in a mostly correct fashion. Also, I can follow tutorials lol Should I go looking around for a second opinion? I chose a local shop that has really solid reviews and the guys there seemed honest, and made it clear that this fix wasn't urgent (just that it would get worse over time). I haven't noticed anything that could be this, yet, and a cursory Google search made it seem not uncommon for my make/model anyways. I don't want to do an unnecessary repair, because my savings kinda got welped by my dog getting attacked (out $300 even after pet insurance) and because I was retarded and got in a fender-bender

[QUOTE=paindoc;51765047]So I had the usual 5000 mile service check done on my car (just a boring 04 CRV) today, and while up on the lift apparently they noticed that the rear differential mounts were cracking and had a significant amount of play. They quoted it out for 730 including labor, which seems steep but I only have the one quote so far I live in an apartment now with no real access to tools or even a jack (yet another reason I want a house ASAP, can hardly change my own damn oil), and the parking spaces here are so small I doubt I could do the job even with all the right equipment. Replacement parts look like they'd be around $180 all said and done, so it's really a bummer I can't do it myself. Admittedly, I'm not really a car dude and the most I've done was a full AC system refurb on my old ranger, along with replacing the plugs and wires on the very same. I just seem to have some attitude at taking things apart and putting them back together in a mostly correct fashion. Also, I can follow tutorials lol Should I go looking around for a second opinion? I chose a local shop that has really solid reviews and the guys there seemed honest, and made it clear that this fix wasn't urgent (just that it would get worse over time). I haven't noticed anything that could be this, yet, and a cursory Google search made it seem not uncommon for my make/model anyways. I don't want to do an unnecessary repair, because my savings kinda got welped by my dog getting attacked (out $300 even after pet insurance) and because I was retarded and got in a fender-bender[/QUOTE] I'd probably be more concerned that the fluid services on the rear diff have been kept up on it than the mounts. The rear diff clutch packs really don't like being neglected. I probably wouldn't worry about it unless you hear it/feel it or you can see that they are totally ruined.

It never hurts to call around about the issue and ask for a quick estimate. I got more than $300 in variance when calling about my busted window regulator.

[QUOTE=slayer3032;51765085]I'd probably be more concerned that the fluid services on the rear diff have been kept up on it than the mounts. The rear diff clutch packs really don't like being neglected. I probably wouldn't worry about it unless you hear it/feel it or you can see that they are totally ruined.[/QUOTE] Yeah, this is something I was wondering about: it just had its big 100k service done relatively recently, and I don't know which fluids they changed. This was before my parents gave me the car and transferred the title too, and all my dad mentioned was "yeah they had to adjust the timings" Also to be fair, the difference in fluids maintenance between the CRV and my old Ranger has been pretty wide haha [editline]2nd February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Trekintosh;51766231]It never hurts to call around about the issue and ask for a quick estimate. I got more than $300 in variance when calling about my busted window regulator.[/QUOTE] Is it worth checking the national franchises too? I worry about the quality of the work with those places

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;51764486]Wow, mine does 1950rpm at 80. Not even 2k! He'll even my RV only does 3800 at 80. It doesn't even have overdrive! What are your rear gears?[/QUOTE] Not really sure, but upon further research it seems that it's normal. My Automatic Tacoma sits at 2.5k and my impreza is around 3k. I guess it makes for better acceleration, but still, I just thought it was kinda strange.

Loving the new 500. Still can't believe I got this for $1k with only 3000 miles. Already: - Cleaned and rebuilt the carbs - Swapped the spark plugs - New oil + filter - New air filter - Rejetted in preparation for exhaust New tires are in the mail as we speak, as these 14 year old tires like to wander quite a bit. [t]http://i.imgur.com/vcBrsPN.jpg[/t]

I'm more surprised it isn't kawasaki green. All the Ninja's I know of sports that color.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/TLOLNwv.jpg[/t] This is what 700$ breaks look like on a cop car.

You're totally leaving on that rough outline of "POLICE" on purpose, aren't you :smug:

[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;51767709]You're totally leaving on that rough outline of "POLICE" on purpose, aren't you :smug:[/QUOTE] It's a pain in the dick to get out. I'm working on it though. I've started to take off the stripes, but the residue is a motherfucker. Thinking about heatgunning them till they're malleable, then hosing it off.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;51767719]It's a pain in the dick to get out. I'm working on it though. I've started to take off the stripes, but the residue is a motherfucker. Thinking about heatgunning them till they're malleable, then hosing it off.[/QUOTE] why not polish it away?

The schmoo would probably ruin the polishing pad pretty quick

[QUOTE=Van-man;51767746]why not polish it away?[/QUOTE] Haven't gotten around to it. I work 6 days a week, so taking a day to work on the car in the middle of winter isn't the easiest thing. I'll definitely work on it on a nice day when its warm.